Private Finished Caught in a daze [Chloe]

Hal gave the girl in front of him a look that seemed to say 'I don't have the time you hear your BS either'. He could care less who Aurora was, he was still a bit upset. He didn't even notice the lighting almost shorted out (again). And with the next question Chloe threw at him, he wasn't sure if he should take it as sarcasm or just an honest query.

After a moment's thought, he hesitantly decided with the latter. "Why? Are demons actually soulless, after all?" Hal said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He tilted his glasses down when he glanced at her with a look that expected that there will be a demonic glow around her. As soon as he said that, he raised a brow at what he saw. From having 'suffered' with having his ability, he started to recognize significant differences between souls based on certain characteristics and Chloe was... actually human. Although he couldn't see it completely, he couldn't find any sort of abnormalities that would say otherwise.

"It's... intact." was the only thing Hal could say after a pause. Now he was wondering what she'd been thinking considering Hal has been accusing her of being a demon.

"To be honest, I haven't met at real demon." Hal said, almost muttering to himself. He was mentally scolding himself for accusing Chloe to be a demon. Having to hear that it didn't seem to faze her was a relief, but not enough to forgive himself for the error.

"But I have seen a few people without their souls, or parts of it missing." he continued. It was a chilling thought but he was sure he wasn't mistaken. "I'm not really an expert as you call it so I do't really know what that means. I sort of just assumed that was the 'selling your soul' thing." A beat. "Then again, shouldn't have been after death?" he added thoughtfully. "But Liches don't work that way..."

Hal realized he had spaced out to his own thoughts and turned back to Chloe, a light pink brushing his cheeks. "I still don't get that you don't have any demonic influence on you. Does everyone in your world look like that?" He said, giving the girl a once-over. He gave her another thoughtful pause. "You know... just... pieces to the puzzle...." he said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"I said 'real'. I was being specific." Hal immediately answered with a huff. "I've met people with demons possessing them once or having those dumb contracts with demons. I haven't met the demons myself but they had these.." he paused to make an exaggerated shudder. "aura." He should be used to it but seeing colors that were different from normal auras gave him chills.

"It's the glow around people. It's normally a solid color, sometimes mixed but sometimes there are combinations that shouldn't be. That's the influence I'm talking about." Hal explained plainly.

Hal took a moment to look around before turning to Chloe. "Do you just want to sit else where? I feel like the hallway is suddenly a ghost town..." he said, barely looking at her. He wouldn't admit it but the demon conversation was starting to make him feel cold.

"Nah, I got the whole day off." Hal said as he turned to walk. He mostly just wanted to walk around to not scare himself. As they began to walk, Chloe started to talk again about demon souls. Hal wouldn't have looked into it but the last thing she said had him stop abruptly in his tracks.

He stayed still for a moment, his thoughts racing, trying to recall any moment he had encountered demons or anything of the sort. He had never really met a demon so there was no way to confirm what its soul looked like. If he was to be completely honest, everything he knew were from deductions he had made on his own. But there were still missing pieces to the puzzle.

There was no way to confirm if Chloe was human after all.

He turned to Chloe with a forced smile, "What? So are you saying that you actually are a demon? D-don't joke around." he said. His words faltered. He probably looked pretty pale to her right now.

The feeling of fear uneasiness slowly built up in Hal. Evil or not, he doesn't like the idea of demons being around him. Especially in his state of being. At least that's how this thought process makes it seem. Then again, everything seemed pretty dangerous to Hal, even a teacup poodle can scare him off. Of course it would make sense how scared he is of demons.

When Chloe began laughing, Hal was overcome with confusion. She wasn't demon and she was only messing with him. He couldn't believe he almost freaked out. Again. He can only wonder what kind of impression he has on the girl. If he know, he'd probably drown in humiliation.

'At least that's what I remember then being.' Chloe continued to speak, making Hal looked up to her with calculating eyes. She continued to talk about how she remembers her family and her doubts about her recollection. She looked at him with uneasiness that made Hal turn away.

Hal never thought of doubting his own memories but having someone bring it up makes him think about his own. Maybe there was a reason he hasn't heard from his parents for two years? Or that he had always felt neglected by the people around him.

Hal violently shook the thought away. That couldn't be right. Of course not. "Well, I'm not one to shoot down your theories but if you really believe that you're human, then I can't call you a liar even if you were a demon, right?" he said. He tried his best to sound sure, but to his own ears, he could hear himself falter. He can't accuse her of lying to him, but it scared him to know there was a possibility that she was.